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"Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder has from the moment of its publication become the standard in the study of dissociative disorders. Simply stated, Putnam has succeeded in rendering the often-confusing field of multiple personality disorder comprehensible and accessible to the mental health professions.....A book of impressive depth as well as breadth and of a surpassing pragmatism free of the imposition of paradigms that, however congenial, have little to do with the thrust of recent findings....this book should be regarded as indispensable for the clinician confronted for the first (or the hundredth) time with a patient who has multiple personality disorder." --American Journal of Psychiatry

"Putnam has succeeded admirably in writing a handbook to guide clinicians new to the treatment of multiple personality disorder (MPD)....[He] provides a wealth of concrete guidance..." --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

"Putnam has provided a book that will be of value, particularly for practitioners, for years to come." --The Institute of Noetic Sciences Catalog

"An encyclopedic volume, certainly the definitive textbook of the disorder." --Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
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"Putnam's Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder is an excellent text for advanced undergraduates or graduate students. The detailed presentation of stages of treatment is especially useful, and the discussion of boundary management and other therapeutic issues is timely and thought provoking." --David Rainey, Ph.D., Psychology Department, John Carroll University

"Demystifies MPD and places it squarely in the mainstream of contemporary knowledge about the impact of childhood trauma. The book promises to be a synthesis of the ideas, techniques, and treatment philosophies about MPD. It delivers on these promises and more. It places MPD in its historical perspective as the disorder that clarifies much about the nature of human consciousness, and now has the potential of helping to unravel the psychobiological linkages between mind and body. The sober, detailed, step-by-step guide through every conceivable aspect of the complex therapy of these patients provides a balanced guide for all clinicians dealing with multiple personality and other dissociative disorders. Putnam's work will be the standard in the field for a long time to come. In breadth of scope, clarity of style, and lucidity of ideas it may even surpass Janet's classic works on the subject." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Massachusetts Mental Health Center Trauma Clinic Director, Harvard Medical School, Author of Psychological Trauma

"Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder has from the moment of its publication become the standard in the study of dissociative disorders. Simply stated, Putnam has succeeded in rendering the often-confusing field of multiple personality disorder comprehensible and accessible to the mental health professions.....A book of impressive depth as well as breadth and of a surpassing pragmatism free of the imposition of paradigms that, however congenial, have little to do with the thrust of recent findings....this book should be regarded as indispensable for the clinician confronted for the first (or the hundredth) time with a patient who has multiple personality disorder." --American Journal of Psychiatry

"Putnam has succeeded admirably in writing a handbook to guide clinicians new to the treatment of multiple personality disorder (MPD)....[He] provides a wealth of concrete guidance..." --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

"Putnam has provided a book that will be of value, particularly for practitioners, for years to come." --The Institute of Noetic Sciences Catalog

"An encyclopedic volume, certainly the definitive textbook of the disorder." --Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

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Hardcover: 351 pages
Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (February 3, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0898621771
ISBN-13: 978-0898621778
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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There is a renewed interest in the psychopathological role of dissociation in a variety of psychiatric disorders. Read the first page

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covert switching, specific alter personalities, further abreactive work, other alter personalities, specific alter personality, persecutor personalities, fugue episodes, persecutor alters, helper alters, abreactive experience, helper personalities, fewer alters, therapeutic abreaction, hidden alters, dissociative psychopathology, personality switching, dissociative barriers, host personality, multiple personality patients, specific alters, personality system, ideomotor signaling, child alters, other dissociative disorders, intrusive recall

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American Psychiatric Association, Morton Prince, David Caul, United States, William James, World War, Cornelia Wilbur, Miss Beauchamp, The Three Faces of Eve, Dead Mary, Dissociative Experiences Scale, Eve Black, Mary Reynolds

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Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality (Clinical Insights Monograph) by Richard P. Kluft on 6 pages
Studies On Hysteria (Basic Books Classics) by Joseph Breuer on 4 pages
The Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (Clinical Insights Monograph) by Bennett G., M.D. Braun on 4 pages
The Dissociation Of A Personality: A Biographical Study In Abnormal Psychology by Morton Prince on page 3, page 30, and Back Matter
Hypnosis: Trance as a Coping Mechanism (Topics in General Psychiatry) by Fred H. Frankel on page 11, and Back Matter

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Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder by Joan Acocella on 6 pages
Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness by Brant Wenegrat on 4 pages
Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder by Valerie Sinason on page 50, page 106, and Back Matter
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul by Ariel Glucklich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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5.0 out of 5 stars INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL -- GREAT BOOK!, March 17, 2003

By	Deaf Writer "deafwriter" (Grand Rapids, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This is a wonderfully written book on MPD. I consider Dr. Putnam and Dr. Ross to be wonderful resources for information (although I do have a bit of disagreement with Dr. Ross on his views about memories).

Dr. Putnam provides a thorough and in-depth journey into the therapy and recovering process of someone with MPD (or DID). Whether you're a doctor, a friend or family member of a multiple, someone recently diagnosed or a seasoned veteran, I think you will find many useful things within this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Validating and Helpful, July 12, 2002

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This book helped us to understand ourselves better. We read this book in search of things that we could relate to that might be similar to our own experiences. It speaks of signs and characteristics that multiples display that we found very much the same as our own life. Really helped in our acceptance of the diagnosis.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I run a large website for people with multiple personalities, August 10, 2007

By	Criss Ittermann (Middletown, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found Dr. Putnam's book to be helpful in very real ways. Not only did he go into the anatomy of the disorder -- and there were plenty of things I disagreed with given my insights into my own experiences with myself and other multiples -- but he went into helpful methodologies for exploration and treatment. He was respectful that multiples do not need to integrate. He mentioned that not all entities in a multiple's head are human-identified. These were critical to me. I don't expect that any one book would get "everything right" for such a complicated, unusual, and ill-understood mental landscape. What I do expect is that people who write about it write from either a wealth of experience, clinical understanding, personal experience, or bountiful qualifications that they are merely stating their opinion. Dr. Putnam has a wealth of observational and clinical experience to share, and his own personal experience with people he is helping. I take each individual statement as a possibility within the wide and deep realm of multiple personality, but I do not apply his individual statements to individuals. Individuals and their expressions of multiple personality vary widely. I have my own perceptions and insights and share them at kinhost.org. Dr. Putnam gives me a book I enjoy arguing with -- and quoting. I would venture to say there's no better book for a clinician to familiarize themself with the phenomenon and possible ways to explore it from a clinical standpoint, but I would also tell you that your experience of any one individual with multiple personalities is not easily reflected by ANY one book. Read away, but then be prepared for any individual multiple to go "out of bounds".

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Read it, you will know why. Putnam adresses a great deal of issues that a therapist may encounter, and truly gives both the Therapist and the paitent hope.

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